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From: jona@moss.ATT.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sources.bugs,rec.games.hack
Subject: blindfolds in nethack
Message-ID: <18779@clyde.ATT.COM>
Date: 20 Dec 87 06:10:42 GMT
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Reply-To: jona@moss.UUCP (Jon M. Allingham)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ
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After increasing the length of props in the 'u' structure to allow enough
room for the blindfold, I discovered that the blindfold didn't work. What
was happening is it was getting timed out just like blindness from
potions. In apply.c, the blindfold is activated by setting
Blindfolded=1 which caused the blindfold to be timed out the next turn.
My solution was to set Blindfolded to 10000L which should keep it from
being timed out (if nothing else it's a real long time).

I (and probably many others) would appreciate it if some nethack gurus
could investigate this and see if this is the right thing to do, and if
not what the correct solution is. For all I know I'm the only one with
this problem.

BTW I am running on System V Rel 2 so maybe something is scrogged
because of that. Who knows...